It's time for this destructive meme about shutting up during elections to stop,

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63. Telling Democrats who read political forums, what the people want and expect IS

the way to influence them. After the election as we have seen so many times, it is way too late.

Do you tell Corporate Lobbyists to remove themselves from DC during Election Season also, because they are busier than ever right now, making sure that Politicians DON'T listen to the people. And this meme clears the field for them, removes the voices of the people. Which leads me to believe that they are who started this meme as they are the only ones to benefit from the silence of the people.

I want my Reps to know RIGHT NOW, that Social Security eg, needs to be loudly and strongly defended and that we will not be fooled by prevarication or weasel words like 'fixing, adjusting and using the word 'deficit' in the same sentence as SS etc. etc. They need to know now what a vast majority of the American people want from them so that we have them on the record AFTER the election.

I am sick of being told now that we 'didn't listen hard enough' to the President during the last election and so we should not complain when he does something like end the ban on Offshore Drilling. And this coming from the same people who every election season tell people they should not try to clarify anything until after the election. Face it, people are awake now, they are not as naive politically as they were when this all started.